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| Title |
Echinacea for preventing and treating the common cold
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd000530.pub3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marlies Karsch-Völk, Bruce Barrett, David Kiefer, Rudolf Bauer, Karin Ardjomand-Woelkart, Klaus Linde |
| Abstract |
Echinacea plant preparations (family Asteraceae) are widely used in Europe and North America for common colds. Most consumers and physicians are not aware that products available under the term Echinacea differ appreciably in their composition, mainly due to the use of variable plant material, extraction methods and the addition of other components. |
Twitter Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 135 tweeters who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 23 | 17% |
| Spain | 18 | 13% |
| Canada | 11 | 8% |
| United States | 8 | 6% |
| Australia | 4 | 3% |
| Colombia | 3 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 3 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1% |
| Italy | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 17 | 13% |
| Unknown | 44 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 94 | 70% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 18 | 13% |
| Scientists | 17 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 4% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 374 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 372 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 86 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 41 | 11% |
| Researcher | 38 | 10% |
| Other | 27 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 6% |
| Other | 62 | 17% |
| Unknown | 99 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 105 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 33 | 9% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 30 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 23 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 21 | 6% |
| Other | 52 | 14% |
| Unknown | 110 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 915. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 May 2023.
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#89
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#2
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Altmetric has tracked 24,456,171 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 12,921 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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